Managed to finish up a new development environment - though due to space constraints with my setup I had to stick to only VS2017.

Going to build and publish some preliminary nightlies with the VS2017 setup, though these will be without the redistributable installers - and therefore might need to have said redistributables (probably both Visual C++ 2017 and 2015) installed from Microsoft if missing DLL errors appear.

Should probably change that order around, since people are more likely to use that one.

I think most users would appreciate that.

Ace (SWE) wrote:Heck, maybe I should stop doing 32-bit nightlies altogether, since there literally hasn't been any new 32-bit only systems since the earliest days of Windows XP.

Do you have download statistics on your site? If so, it would be worth checking how often they are accessed vs the 64-bit versions. That said, I wonder if we should keep nightlies so long as we are supporting a 32-bit release. I’d hate to make a new release and be surprised that it doesn’t work due to a commit 3 months ago that broke it, but it was never caught.

Thunderforge wrote:Are you sure that’s working? Page 1 of this thread still shows the old version from the beginning of January, and it’s been well over 30 minutes since I last posted.

I think your browser has cached an old image in that case, because it's all updated on both my side and on the server;

(And it apparently managed that build in a breathtaking 11m at that, so I think VS2017 is much better in the speed department)

To note; I've modified the task to start with 64-bit builds from now on.

Thunderforge wrote:Do you have download statistics on your site? If so, it would be worth checking how often they are accessed vs the 64-bit versions. That said, I wonder if we should keep nightlies so long as we are supporting a 32-bit release. I’d hate to make a new release and be surprised that it doesn’t work due to a commit 3 months ago that broke it, but it was never caught.

Sadly don't have download stats from the current host, so I can't say how many people are using the 32-bit build versus the 64-bit one.

But when it comes to detecting breakage we do have AppVeyor, which is currently set to apparently only build 32-bit builds.Should probably look over its configuration.